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Meet: LA’s coolest new purveyor of a bit of this, a bit of pots — and a lot of plants in pots.
One of the city’s most iconic design institutions, Berbere Imports, supplying both the Hollywood glitterati and mere mortals for more than 40 years — has partnered with The Plant Daddies — a hot-earthy-guy house supplying exotic and high-end indoor plants for a permanent place in Inglewood.
This new residency is absolutely teeming with cool kids, but I try not to show my nerves; even before I walk in, the textured, organic space is welcoming and warm — which I find out is credited to the soaring 40,000-foot warehouse with an airy ceiling and am greeted by meticulously curated pots, plants, and objects that, in a world awash in Instagram and Pinterest, your novice home decor enthusiast would never lose inspiration. To an extent, we all crave warm, harmonious homes, and this permanent residency is cool.
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As a full-time publicist, I know how well thoughtful collaborations can be a silver bullet for acquisition — thus, The Plant Daddies x Berbere partnership isn’t entirely shocking. Berbere’s global sourcing of bespoke pots and vessels from artisan families and The Plant Daddies’ unrivaled passion for life manifested through plants mirror one another’s brand ethos in bringing warmth to spaces.
Berbere Imports is founded and run by Suad Cano, a now 50+ year career importer and interior specialist with a showroom space in Inglewood, near the new SoFi stadium. Celebrated within the design trade, her first “business” started by bringing things back from trips for her friends in the 1970s, ultimately opening her first shop on Sunset and Vermont. In the store’s infancy, they were only open on the weekends and sold out of their Berbere Rugs regularly, and moved to a larger space on Robertson and Beverly, importing from places like India and Afghanistan. Today, the shop houses unusual, one-of-a-kind items from far-flung places like Egypt, Pakistan, Morocco, and more and is open to the public and design professionals. They started to receive feedback from customers that there were no planting partners in Los Angeles and needed a plant partner.
The Plant Daddies started in 2020 first, like most companies of our time do — on Instagram — and quickly scaled to accommodate the growing demand for high-end, outdoor-made indoor plants. Berbere turned to the founding trio – Macy Lucarelli, Dane Jordan, and Kenny Rickerd – through a mutual connection (and now Berbere partners) Zaid Al-Hakim and Kai Hansen. After a bromance meet in May 2021, they set up a residency which quickly became permanent at Berbere’s warehouse.
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This residency is a one-stop shop for seductive plants in exotic vessels, paired by professional plant experts and design geniuses, all under the watchful guise of Suad Cano’s artistry. Visit this permanent residency at Berbere Imports for an answer to those dream plant images push-pinned to our bulletin boards to living inside those organic, harmonious spaces.
